, 1887-08-23
CATTLE THIEVES.
Nebraska Farmers Stealing Fat
Wyoming Beeves.
Two Thieves Force Fifteen Armed
Cowboys to Retreat.
Treatment Accorded Wyoming
Fugitives by Nebraska.

A stockman who arrived from the
North last evening related to a LEADER
representative the manner in which the
inhabitants Of the barren sand hill region
OF Northwestern Nebraska exc out an ex-
istence by raiding on Wyoming's prolific
ranges.
About the 10th inst. two grangers were
reported to be stealing and Strengthening
cattle Just over the line and hauling the
carcasses to railway stations. The thieves
soon became aware that they were being
watched and changed their tactics. For
a few days they hunted, but with not
much success, as large game is exceed
ingly scarce in that vicinity at this season.
Wearyipg of ~fruitless and undressing
pursuit of the timid jack rabbit, the
grangers returned to the more profitable
and less honest pastime of butchering
cattle which were the property OF Wye
ming cattlemen.
The spy who had been posted to note
the depredations of the enterprising horny
handed sons Of tod Immediately reported
the renewal of war on Wyoming beef to a
round up outfit which was working in that
section.
Fifteen well armed and splendidly
mounted cowboys at once moved upon the
law breaking intruders with the intention
of effecting their arrest and causing their
punishment.
The MOUNTED police figured unwisely in
boldly riding upon the grangers, who
we're engaged in dressing a beef said to be
the property of the Bay State Live Stock
company. The butchers were promptly
ordered to throw up their hands, and did
so, at the same time pointing a couple of
repeating Winchesters in the direction of
the rangers. The latter suddenly remem-
bered the old truism about bravery and
valor, and retrcated in fine order, leaving
the Nebraskans in possession of the
bloody field.
As the scene of the trouble was fully
100 miles from any county seat or pre-
cinct where an officer might be found, the
thieves escaped. 1t is more than proba-
BILE, however, hat the culprlts will be
apprehended in the near future by officers
of the stock association.
This fragrant violation of the common
law will not be tolerated.
Nebraska firemen may defraud and
cheat representatives of Wyoming de-
partments, and cause the latter to expend
large sums of money to attend and parti-
cipate in contests in which they are not
allowed the slightest opportunity of win
ming a prize or purse. Home firemen
may sometime have a chance to r~etaliate
for the infection of outrages of this char
acter.
Cornfeld ball players may defeat the
Cheyenne nine by purchasing the umpire,
and nothing will be said; but when the
Nebraskans become so u~nneighborly as to
surreptitiously supply their tables with
Wyoming's fat beeves, the line will be
drawn.
1t might be well to mention here that
Logan and Lincoln counties, Nebraska,
attempted to prevent Wyoming officials
from arresting the gentlemanly and ac-
complished Chas. Parker, the modern
Dick Turpin.
To continue in the same strain, Linn,
murderer and fugitive from Wyoming
Justice, was accidentally a%pprehended at
Omaha, Ncb., which city he had selected
as a residence after escaping from the
Albany county jail. Lee Jones, horse
thief, a companion of Linn's, is supposed
to be in hiding in the neighborhood in
which Parker was captured.
On the other hand it is not the inten-
ton of THE LEADER to malign Nebraska
for these slight incidents, 1t is prepos-
ferrous to assert hat no good can come
out of Nazareth so long as the Burling-
ton & Missouri, an organization which
marches hand in hand with the
development of Wyoming's east
ern neighbor, is evidently doing so
much to assist in the building
up of Cheyenne. At the same time Ne
braska capitalists are steadily and heavily
investing in Cheyenne real estate and in
~stitutlons, and it is a gentleman from that
state who has offered to donate twenty
acres of land on which to erect a smelter
in this city.
Other Nebraskans are booming and ad-
vertising Cheyenne even more than those
upon whom the duty should properly de-
volve. The fact still remains, nevertheless,
that the O~mahogs, Kearneyites and other
investors from Nebraska will lose nothing
by their operations in this section.
Appraisers Appointed.
u U Hnrrin II A Knnt and Geo L.